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What do I understand by meaning? It is a specific aroma caught by consciousness when it tastes a combination of elements none of which taken separately would exude such an aroma. 18 And so, one can oppose to the expressive theory of culture its systemic formulation, in an approach according to which the meaning of a sign is defined by its place in a system of relations which can be grasped from the outside, objectively, through the investigation of the structure of such a system. The fact that social phenomena are meaningful by no means implies that these meanings have to be interpreted psychologically or that they can only be revealed by means of hermeneutic methods.

Is not historically invariant. Accordingly, whenever we treat methodological rules and the criteria based on these rules as universally valid, we absolutize the ideal from which they are derived and we cease to perceive the fact that this ideal (or the intuitive idea of a goal) is neither eternal nor the only one possible. We cease to treat it as a historical fact, the result of a particular stage of cultural development, and we present it as a necessity of reason. Such a formulation conceals an evaluative judgment of the definite (but by no means the only possible) form which science assumes currently.

Such an understanding cannot be provided by explanations which do not treat the events and processes as fully concrete. Thus the argument that the model of explanation by law is unsatisfactory, since it cannot explain events in their particularity, is based on an ideal of scientific knowledge that is different from the ideal on the basis of which the 32 CHAPTER II covering-law model was developed. The situation is similar in the case of other arguments directed against this model. 3. " 4 By the same token, the nomological model cannot provide an adequate account of what the explanatory procedures should be either in science or in everyday life.